From e901378578c62202594cba0f6c076f3df365ec91 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Felipe Rechia Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2018 10:57:22 -0300 Subject: [PATCH] powerpc/process: Fix flush_all_to_thread for SPE Fix a bug introduced by the creation of flush_all_to_thread() for processors that have SPE (Signal Processing Engine) and use it to compute floating-point operations. >From userspace perspective, the problem was seen in attempts of computing floating-point operations which should generate exceptions. For example: fork(); float x = 0.0 / 0.0; isnan(x); // forked process returns False (should be True) The operation above also should always cause the SPEFSCR FINV bit to be set. However, the SPE floating-point exceptions were turned off after a fork(). Kernel versions prior to the bug used flush_spe_to_thread(), which first saves SPEFSCR register values in tsk->thread and then calls giveup_spe(tsk). After commit 579e633e764e, the save_all() function was called first to giveup_spe(), and then the SPEFSCR register values were saved in tsk->thread. This would save the SPEFSCR register values after disabling SPE for that thread, causing the bug described above. Fixes 579e633e764e ("powerpc: create flush_all_to_thread()") Signed-off-by: Felipe Rechia Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman --- arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c index 7ad304a3cc7d..bcb36229d4fd 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c @@ -590,12 +590,11 @@ void flush_all_to_thread(struct task_struct *tsk) if (tsk->thread.regs) { preempt_disable(); BUG_ON(tsk != current); - save_all(tsk); - #ifdef CONFIG_SPE if (tsk->thread.regs->msr & MSR_SPE) tsk->thread.spefscr = mfspr(SPRN_SPEFSCR); #endif + save_all(tsk); preempt_enable(); } -- 2.30.2